Love Conquers All

"YOU!" Anypony in their right mind would be afraid of Pinkie Pie right now, her eyes burned with the hatred of one thousand suns, her very body language screamed murder. This was not looking good for Star Shine.

"You think I'm afraid of you?" Sadly, Star Shine was not in his right mind. "Some puny earth pony with a crush, that's what you are. I am the most powerful unicorn in all of Equestria! Then the most powerful being in all of Equestria!" Star Shine let out of laugh that would most likely make Nightmare Moon jealous. Like with most villains though, he wasn't truly paying attention to the object of his mockery.

Nopony saw Pinkie move, nopony saw her run next to Star Shine...probably because she didn't run, she disappeared and reappeared next to him. Then, her head firmly connected with his. For Star Shine, it felt like a brick wall him: The unicorn fell to the ground with some force.

"NOPONY HURTS MY DASHIE!" Twilight was in the background fairly stunned at the spectacle before her. Pinkies hoof came down on Star Shine's back. Earth Ponies were known for their astounding strength, unicorns were not. "Nopony..." Pinkie kept driving her hoof into his back, his vertebrae were straining to stay in place underneath the strong hoof. "Twilight...get the gem.." Twilight wasn't paying attention, she was too focused on Pinkie's hoof and her ex-coltfriend's pained expression. "TWILIGHT!"

Twilight stirred from her distraction and looked at Pinkie. "R-Right..." Her horn glowed purple and she lifted the gem from the ground and over to her. She focused on it instead of Star Shine, she still had some sympathy for the colt...she loved him after all. The gem was still beautiful, it shone with a myriad of colors...one she recognized as Rainbow Dash's eye color.

It sickened her mostly, the thought of absorbing ponies into this thing. Who all had he gotten? The colors she saw were all very common eye colors in Ponyville, it would be hard to determine who they were until the missing pony reports came in. Twilight kept the gem within her magic, it was her problem now.

CRACK

That sound brought Twilight out of her lament and thinking, Star Shine's screams mad her look up, and his broken back made her cringe. Twilight had read about this stuff in medical books, but she had always hoped she would never have to see it. But now she had, and she wanted it to stop.

"P-Pinkie..." Twilight was too scared to speak above a whisper.

"REVERSE IT!" Pinkie slammed her hoof onto his already broken back again.

"I-I can't..." Star Shine coughed up some blood. "I-I was so close...so...close.." Pinkie's hoof lifted her hoof from his back and put it on his horn.

"Reverse it."

"I-I can't...you foal.."

"When you release my Dashie, then you have my permission to die" Pinkie had spontaneously grown a metal mask that covered her mouth and portions of her head.

"W-What...?" She raised her hoof higher and prepared for it to drop.

"Pinkie, don't do-" Before Twilight could explain the severe ramifications of breaking a unicorn's horn, Pinkie brought her hoof down on Star Shine's, snapping it in half.

Unicorn's horns are of course manifestations of their magic. All of their magic all of the spells they ever cast are linked to it. breaking a horn will nullify any and all spells ever cast by the unicorn who cast them. This usually manifests itself in a class 12 magical disruption: This is on par with Celestia moving the sun itself.

So, needless to say, this caused one heck of a bang.

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Within the confines of Carousel Boutique, in the master bedroom, something quite magical happened. A unicorn which had been previously encased in stone, shattered...well, the stone shattered. Leaving a dazed and confused Rarity in its wake.

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Meanwhile, on the top level of the unfinished observatory, three adventurous fillies re-materialized on the cold metal.

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The hospital room was still intact, but most of the occupants who had been in the room, were now firmly planted on the walls...well, except for Twilight, who was four hundred feet away through the hole in the wall that she herself had made. Miraculously though, two ponies were still near Star Shine.

Rainbow Dash lay on the bed and Spitfire lay on the ground, sans her uniform. Both were out cold, from the sudden magical expulsion that made them materialize or the concussive force of the blast. Nopony quite knew.

"Okay....not my smartest idea.." Pinkie groaned as she grabbed her own mane and peeled herself free of the wall, Which now had a Pinkie shaped indent in it. "Dashie!" The blue pegasus was laying in bed, Pinkie had never been happier to see Dash in all of her life.

Strangely, Pinkie felt that everything would be alright.

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Two Weeks Later

Star Shine was laying in the Canterlot Dungeon. His broken back restricted him to the smallest of movements. he had been in there roughly a week after most of his magical recovery had been completed at Ponyville Hospital. But, Celestia had ordered that his back not be fully mended..as part of his punishment. As for the charges: High Treason and Conspiracy to Assassinate the Royal Pony Sisters. That alone earned him life in the dungeon.

"Hey! Where's my letter?!" His appearance was dismal. His coat was dirty and ragged, his mane was about the same. His once piercing white eyes had been reduced to dull gray pits.

"Hold on! You're lucky to even get this letter, scum." The white unicorn stallion that watched over him trotted up to the cell door and levitated a letter through the slot and in front of Star Shine's hoof. "Now shut up! Celestia is delivering her annual State Of The Kingdom address!"

My Dearest Cousin,

I am sorry to hear about your incarceration, it is my top priority to come see you.Alas, it is a long trip from Applewood to Canterlot, but I will get there. As for your hatred of Ponyville, I share it with you. Those six mares are the most troublesome..some day we will have our revenge. I must keep this correspondence short. Be well, my cousin.

Signed,

Trixie Lulamoon

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Dash was resting on her cloud bed in her magnificent house in the sky. It felt nice to have a corporeal body again, Ever since Star Shine went away, life had been good. She had gone on a couple more dates with Soarin, she had an audition for the Wonderbolts next week, and Pinkie was back to being her friend. All seemed right with the world..

"Hey Dash, I think you've run out of hot water...sorry." Soarin trotted out of the bathroom connected to Dash's bedroom.

Scratch that, everything was perfect with the world.

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"Ohh....Spitfire...that was amazing.." Spitfire re-emerged from underneath the covers, her usually styled mane was tussled and messy.

"You really think so...?" The captain of the Wonderbolts blushed profusely. "It was my first time..."

"Sure as hell doesn't seem like it..." A very satisfied Fleetfoot smiled and pulled Spitfire into a deep, passionate kiss.

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Pinkie was sitting at a table in Sugarcube Corner. She had used her lunch break every day to sit at this table to wait...wait for a pony that always promised to meet her there, but never did. The unicorn diva would come over a few minutes after her break was finished and apologize profusely. Pinkie always accepted it, how could she not? After all...Pinkie would do anything for love.